Is Flipboard that ‘just good enough’ RSS reader?
A few posts ago I postulated that for most people, for most types of ‘news’ algorithms based around attention and the social graph may well be almost good enough to replace theRead More…
Tag Archives: rss
“Just good enough” and why RSS readers might be skip-tech
As I said, I don’t see QR codes ever being widely accepted in the UK, easier and lower impact methods of getting to the right web content have already started to takeRead More…
Hyperlocal News Wire
Here’s a pipe I’ve created that attempts to marshal the content from hyperlocal blogging in Birmingham and allow people only to subscribe to feeds that interest them. This is a piece ofRead More…
Monitoring your “brand” on Twitter with search
If you’re doing any sort of professional work on Twitter then the main part of what you should do is listen. Listen to see what people are saying about you or yourRead More…
RSS as legislation
Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought reports that the US Government's new Stimulus bill requires that each government agency report the money it gives out in RSS, it's not just unstructured text, but willRead More…
Feed Me – RSS isn’t an option, it’s a must
The Birmingham Post recently published a ‘list of shame’ of local bodies that don’t make their information available by RSS. It’s pretty damning, and Birmingham City Council are one of the worstRead More…
I can’t work out if it’s a lot
Skitch.com > bounder > Google Reader (1000+)
New feature wishlist for Google Reader
I’ve been thinking some more about the whole, information overload, autogenerated echo, crossposting thing. I’ve come to the conclusion that I don’t want RSS feeds aggregated for me on yet another webRead More…
Links for 26th February
FriendFeed – Not sure if this is interesting – it's a very light social network build on your existing feeds.